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Despite the speculation regarding Gavin Floyd's future, the Chicago White Sox's right-hander is scheduled to attend the 21st annual SoxFest on Jan. 25-27 at the Palmer House Hilton. The Sox picked up the $9.5 million option on Floyd, who is in the final year of his contract and has attracted plenty of interest among pitching-seeking teams. Also scheduled to join Floyd are sluggers Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn, 17-game winner Chris Sale, shortstop Alexei Ramirez and closer Addison Reed.

Q-I`m fascinated by crystal chandeliers, sconces, candlesticks and lamps with dangling prisms and other fancy decorations. Where can I find information on antique pieces, and how can I learn more about their origin and age? Also, how can I contact collectors? A-An excellent reference book with an enormous amount of information and about 400 photographs is "Nineteeth Century Lighting-Candle-Pow ered Devices: 1783-1883," by H. Parrott Bacot, available for $61.95 postpaid from Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1469 Morstein Rd., West Chester, Pa. 19380 (phone 215-696-1001)

In his nearly 30 years in Waukegan, artist Jim Harrington has worked hard to make the community a better place. His art work is displayed in many of the city's public spaces. His success in commercial art has allowed him to fund many a worthy project over the years, sometimes by dedicating revenue generated by the sale of his work to a particular cause and sometimes just by providing him with enough money to share the wealth. But ask Harrington, 53, if he's famous and he'll say he's "well known."

Mazda Miata. The name is lyrical. The car made the automotive world salivate when it appeared as a 1990 model. A British-style roadster with one major difference-it worked. A fun-to-drive, top-down, wind-in-your-face vehicle for the '90s after a decade of fuel economy dictates that had drained the life from most cars. It arrived from Japan, and stuck it to the domestic automakers again. They were turning out econoboxes high on mileage, low on emissions, mediocre in styling and pitiful in performance when the Japanese said, "Hey fellas, look at this!"

For somewhere in the vicinity of 100 weeks, Mitch O`Connell has been the name next to the top of this column and the joy at its center. He is the young man who does the drawings that weekly tickle and embellish this space. In a very special newspaper way, we are a team. It's an odd couple, to be sure, for we rarely see each other and talk but a couple of minutes a week, usually on Monday mornings. "Hi, it's Mitch," he will say when he calls and then he will listen as we try to describe the main topic of the column to appear in a few days.

It's the holiday season. That means it's time for traditional family-fueled depression, near-homicidal acts and awful hangovers. You may be mulling how to spend some of your hard-earned dollars. Maybe even thinking of buying a nice piece of art, for youself, a loved one, or maybe just your bail bondsman. Fortunately, the December Smart Money offers terrific tips on avoiding financial peril in "Ten Things Your Art Dealer Won't Tell You," though it does ultimately forget one huge piece of advice.

SEOUL (Reuters) - As South Korean rapper Psy readies what he hopes will be his next hit song, aiming for a repeat of the viral "Gangnam Style", retailers are keeping a close eye on what he wears, hoping another blockbuster will send sales surging. From the tortoiseshell sunglasses to the two-toned Oxfords the chubby singer sported for his YouTube megahit, a wide range of brands - and Seoul's Gangnam district itself - have reaped rich rewards from the Psy effect. Psy's stylist will say only that the 35-year-old will once more be clad in a suit for the new song, whose title also remains a secret.

The marketing magic of limited availability has not gone unnoticed by the people behind the Harry Potter films. So, with a wave of Warner Bros.' wand, DVDs and Blu-Rays of the eight movies based on J.K. Rowling's novels about the young wizard's adventures look to vanish from retail outlets before too long, presumably charming would-be buyers to long for them all the more. The studio plans to discontinue shipping the home videos to sellers Dec. 29, a hair less than seven weeks after the Nov. 11 home-video release of the series' final installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2," as well as "Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection.

On my walls is a collection of art that can best be described as eclectic. Above the fireplace is "Iris Garden," a triptych of colored 19th Century Japanese wood-block prints. Nearby hangs a 6-foot-high vintage advertising poster that depicts the big red Laughing Cow of cheese fame--a cow with horns and dangly earrings. By the front door is a drawing the British illustrator David Hughes executed in watercolor, pen and hair. I like to think diversity is plucky. My enthusiasm for taking risks ought to make me an ideal candidate to shop online for original art. So why was I so terrified by the idea?

1. "Chez Mondrian," 1926 photograph by Andre Kertesz. Kertesz, one of the giants of photography, died this fall a few months after Chicago rolled out the red carpet for his visit in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibit of his work at The Art Institute of Chicago. Later print, 13-5/8 by 10-3/4 inches, $1,540. 2. "Night Bathing" shows fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe at her best, combining her lyrical sense of fashion and art in this 1939 photograph. New prints can be ordered through the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago where a retrospective of Dahl-Wolfe's work is on exhibit.